Notable & Quotable

Updated Nov. 10, 2004 12:01 a.m. ET

Charles Krauthammer, writing in the Fall 2004 issue of the American journal of opinion the National Interest:

Radical Islam does not have its Sartre and its Pound. It is the conceit of intellectuals to think that this counts for more than a Richard Reid, armed this time not with a shoe-bomb but a nuclear suitcase or a consignment of anthrax.

Disdaining the appeal of radical Islam is the conceit also of secularists. Radical...